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This must be the end of the world or somethin' AMD published the release note! Unfortunately the number of bugs that are fixed is too small. With the previous version of Catalyst (9.00), X crashes unexpectedly on KDE (both 4.8.x and 4.9.x) so I downgraded Catalyst to 8.98. I hope they have fixed this annoying bug so far.

One positive thing I noticed is that ground in triggerrally.com is no longer transparent, like it was with 12.10 drivers. Graphical glitches in Cinnamon are still there.

Another major pleasant change is that card now automatically clocks down, to 300 and 150 Mhz for Core and Memory, respectively, when there's no heavy load. With 12.10 drivers it was 500, 1250 minimum, and I used to get annoying fan noise.

Thank you, AMD, for making an effort to publish a Linux release log. I recently upgraded my AMD Radeon HD 4870 to a HD 7850 due to the legacy graphics drivers (for both Linux & Window). I wasn't please that my old card became "unsupported" after only 3 years (and I still am not), but I am happy that my new 7850 runs Arch + GnomeShell very smoothly. There's no difference between the framerate of the Unigine Heaven Tech Demo running on Windows 8 + DirectX 11 and Linux 3.6 + OpenGL, even at very high settings with Tesselation. Blender + Dyntopo is running very smooth as well. Awesome